Leinster Senior League Cup (cricket)

The Leinster Senior Cup is the most important provincial cricket knock-out cup of the Leinster jurisdiction in Ireland. The competition was renamed as the Leinster Senior League Cup between 2020 and 2022.^[1]

Traditionally a knock-out competition, from 2019 it has been played in a group format, with the winners and runners-up of two groups qualifying for semi-finals. In 2021, it was played as a T20 competition.^[2]

List of finals

1930s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1935	Pembroke	Phoenix
1936	Leinster	Merrion
1937	Phoenix	Dublin University
1938	Phoenix	Dublin University
1939	Phoenix	Leinster

1940s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1940	Merrion	Leinster
1941	Leinster	Dublin University
1942	Dublin University	Phoenix
1943	Clontarf	Pembroke
1944	Pembroke	Merrion
1945	Phoenix	Pembroke
1946	Pembroke	Merrion
1947	Phoenix	Clontarf
1948	Phoenix	Merrion
1949	Phoenix	Railway Union

1950s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1950	Clontarf	Railway Union
1951	Phoenix	Merrion
1952	Dublin University	Clontarf
1953	Leinster	Malahide
1954	Pembroke	Dublin University
1955	Leinster	Malahide
1956	Leinster	Phoenix
1957	Pembroke	Leinster
1958	Leinster	Phoenix
1959	Malahide	Leinster

1960s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1960	Merrion	Clontarf
1961	Dublin University	Railway Union
1962	Dublin University	Pembroke
1963	Dublin University	Merrion
1964	Old Belvedere	Malahide
1965	Old Belvedere	Malahide
1966	Old Belvedere	Malahide
1967	Railway Union	Phoenix
1968	Leinster	Clontarf
1969	Clontarf	Phoenix

1970s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1970	Old Belvedere	Clontarf
1971	Malahide	Clontarf
1972	Pembroke	Malahide
1973	Phoenix	Pembroke
1974	Pembroke	Railway Union
1975	Phoenix	Leinster
1976	Phoenix	Leinster
1977	Phoenix	Old Belvedere
1978	Phoenix	Merrion
1979	Phoenix	?

1980s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1980	Pembroke	YMCA
1981	Leinster	Railway Union
1982	Phoenix	Malahide
1983	Pembroke	Leinster
1984	YMCA	Leinster
1985	Leinster	Merrion
1986	YMCA	Phoenix
1987	YMCA	Clontarf
1988	YMCA	Railway Union
1989	The Hills	Carlisle

1990s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
1990	YMCA	Clontarf
1991	YMCA	Leinster
1992	Clontarf	YMCA
1993	Pembroke	Old Belvedere
1994	YMCA	Malahide
1995	Clontarf	Merrion
1996	The Hills	Pembroke
1997	Pembroke	The Hills
1998	Leinster	Malahide
1999	Pembroke	The Hills

2000s

Season	Winners	Runners-up
2000	Clontarf	North County
2001	YMCA	Terenure
2002	YMCA	Merrion
2003	North County	Clontarf
2004	Clontarf	Rush
2005	The Hills	Clontarf
2006	The Hills	North County
2007	Clontarf	Merrion
2008	Clontarf	North County
2009	Clontarf	North County

2010s

Season	Winners	Runners-up	Match Scores
2010	Railway Union	Clontarf
2011	Merrion	North County	^[3]
2012	Clontarf	Pembroke	Pembroke 236–8 (60.0 overs, T Lawson 79, A Balbirnie 57, G Baugh 45, A Cusack 3–45) Clontarf 238–4 (55.5 overs, B Coghlan 62, A Poynter 56, M Watterson 53, A Eastwood 2–38, A Leonard 2–58) Clontarf won by 6 wickets^[4]
2013	YMCA	Pembroke	YMCA 288-6 (60.0 overs, J Bray 130, T Johnston 62, B McCarthy 2-61) Pembroke 209 (55.4 overs, B McCarthy 45, T Lawson 35, R Russell 28, A van der Merwe 4-39, Simmi Singh 3-35, Yacoub Ali 2-45) YMCA won by 79 runs*^[5]
2014	Clontarf	Malahide	Clontarf 215 (Delany 57, Savile 5/40, B McCarthy 2-61) Malahide 171 (Strydom 48, Der Merwe 2/27, Morrissey 4/41, D'Arcy 3/38) Clontarf won by 44 runs^[6]
2015	Clontarf	YMCA	Clontarf 204 (S McAuley 40, M Granger 5/38) YMCA 208-2 (A D'Arcy 88no, B Coghlan 53) Clontarf won by 8 wickets^[7]^[8]
2016	YMCA	Leinster	Leinster 225-8 (Coad 24, Delany 27, Dockrell 70, O'Dwyer 33, Singh 5/57) YMCA 226-3 (49.2 overs) (Tector 75, Singh 66, Terry 58no) YMCA won by 7 wickets^[9]
2017	The Hills	Merrion	Merrion 186 (Anderson 80, Lewis 22, Tice 41; Cartwright 4/30) The Hills 188-5 (37.4 overs) (McLoughlin-Gavin 38, Shah 25, Sorensen 64no; Kane 3/29) The Hills won by 5 wickets^[10]
2018	Clontarf	North County	Clontarf 192-8 (Gallagher 22, Poynter 36, Forrest 66, Islam 35; Sheridan 3/27, Nofal 4/8) North County 175 (Grassi 32, McGovern 58; Poynter 3/24) Clontarf won by 17 runs^[11]
2019	The Hills	Phoenix	^[12]

2020s

Season	Winners	Runners-up	Match Scores
2020	YMCA	Railway Union	^[13]
2021	Merrion	YMCA	^[14]
2022	Pembroke	Clontarf	^[15]
2023	Clontarf	The Hills	^[16]
2024	Pembroke	Phoenix	^[17]

Summary of winners

Team	Wins
Phoenix	15
Clontarf	15
Pembroke	14
YMCA	12
Leinster	10
The Hills	6
Dublin University	5
Merrion	4
Old Belvedere	4
Malahide	2
Railway Union	2
North County	1

References

Cricket Leinster Archives

External links

Cricket Leinster

[1] Cricket Leinster

[2] ttps://www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ARTICLES2021/articles/000011/001128.shtml Cricket Leinster]

[3] Merrion win the LHW Senior Cup

[4] LCU Senior Cup 2012

[5] LCU Senior Cup 2013

[6] 7 up for Clontarf

[7] Best laid plans of mice and men

[8] Match Report: Leinster Senior Cup Final

[9] Singh leads YMCA to cup glory

[10] Cricket Leinster

[11] Cricket Europe

[12] CricketEurope

[13] Cricket Leinster

[14] ttps://www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ARTICLES2021/articles/000011/001128.shtml Cricket Europe]

[15] Cricket Europe

[16] Cricket Europe

[17] Cricket Europe

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